Menie Parkes
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| Born | Clarinda Sarah Parkes (1839-07-23)23 July 1839 at sea, off Cape Howe, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 11 October 1915(1915-10-11) (aged 76) Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Relatives | Sir Henry Parkes (father) |
Clarinda Sarah Parkes (23 July 1839 – 11 October 1915) was an Australian poet and writer. She was also known as Menie Parkes and wrote under that and a number of other pseudonyms, including Patty Parsley, Alethea, Ariel and C. S. P.
Parkes was the daughter of Clarinda (née Varney) and Henry Parkes, later five-time Premier of New South Wales. She was born on board the Strathfieldsaye, off the New South Wales coast, near Cape Howe.[1]
Her first poem appeared in print under her initials, C. S. P., in 1855 in the Empire,[2] a Sydney newspaper owned and edited by her father.[3] In 1859–1860, as Patty Parsley she wrote serialised stories for The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal.[4] Writing as Ariel, Bitter-Sweet–So Is the World was serialised over 30 weeks in The Sydney Mail in 1860–1861.[5]
On 30 March 1869 Parkes married William Thom, at Werrington.[6] He was a Presbyterian minister and they settled in Pambula, where their first two sons were born,[7][8] before moving to Ballan, near Ballarat in Victoria.
Parkes's last known published work was a reflection, Sydney Sixty Years Since, published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1910.[9]
Parkes died at her home in Ashfield, New South Wales on 11 October 1915.[1][10] She was buried in St Thomas' cemetery at Enfield.[11]
In 1983 A. W. Martin edited a collection of Thom's letters to her father, Letters from Menie : Sir Henry Parkes and his daughter.[12]
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